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GRANTS: Czech Film Fund Supports Development of Nine Feature Projects

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2019-02-21

PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund distributed 272,604 EUR / 7.01 m CZK for the development of nine feature films.

FESTIVALS: One World Film Festival Announces Lineup

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-02-20

PRAGUE: Twelve titles will vie in the international competition of the 2019 One World International Human Rights Film Festival, taking place from 6 to 17 March 2019 in Prague and…

Banned Czech Doc Returns to Cinemas

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-02-20

PRAGUE: The Czech documentary The Road Leads to Tibet / Cesta vede do Tibetu by Vladimír Sís will return to cinemas more than 60 years after its premiere. Its renewed…

FNE IDF DocBloc: East Doc Interactive 2019 Programme Revealed

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-02-15

The upcoming East Doc Platform 2019 will offer not only the traditional documentary projects, but also those telling stories in a very innovative way. The East Doc Interactive workshop helps…

FNE at Berlinale 2019: Czech Film in Berlin

Czech Film Center Czech Republic 2019-02-10

Come and visit us at the European Film Market and learn more about the current state of Czech cinema, new and upcoming films, or about co-production and shooting possibilities in…

FNE IDF DocBloc: Greta Stocklassa: I Feel an Obligation to the Protagonists

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-02-08

Greta Stocklassa is currently making Kiruna 2.0, a film about the relocation of a Swedish mining town.

OBITUARY: Czech Director and Scriptwriter Václav Vorlíček

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2019-02-07

PRAGUE: Václav Vorlíček, author of several classic Czech films, especially crazy comedies and fairy tales, has died at the age of 88.

Jan Palach Wins 2018 Czech Film Critics‘ Awards

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2019-02-04

PRAGUE: Robert Sedláček’s Jan Palach won the Czech Film Critics’ Award for best film, while the best director award went to Olmo Omerzu for his road movie Winter Flies /…

FNE Market Analysis 2018: CZECH REPUBLIC

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2019-02-01

Czech cinema enjoyed domestic and international successes of both feature films and documentaries in 2018, with the Czech Film Fund effectively supporting the development and production of numerous quality films…

FNE IDF DocBloc: First Tutors of 3rd Ex Oriente Film 2018 Revelead

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-02-01

Marta Prus, Torstein Parelius and Mila Turajlić are among the tutors of the last of three week-long Ex Oriente Film workshop sessions, which will take place in Prague from 9…

Magenta TV Buys HBO’s Wasteland

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-01-30

PRAGUE: Beta Cinema sold the eight-part original drama series Wasteland / Pustina produced for the Czech branch of HBO Europe to Deutsche Telekom's Magenta TV.

Three dok.incubator Projects Selected for Sundance

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-01-25

PRAGUE: Three documentaries developed at the dok.incubator workshop have been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2019. Nine films made it to Sundance in…

FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Docs at FIPADOC, DocPoint Helsinki & Tallinn

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-01-25

Upcoming DocPoint Helsinki (28 January – 3 February 2019) included Helena Třeštíková's retrospective and Jan Gebert's When the War Comes in its programme, while DocPoint Tallin (30 January - 3…

Toman Tops Czech Lion Awards Nominations

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2019-01-23

PRAGUE: Toman by Ondřej Trojan tops the 26th edition of the Czech Lion awards with 13 nominations. The winners of the 26th Czech Lion awards, organised by the Czech Film…

National Film Museum Opens in Prague

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2019-01-18

PRAGUE: The new NaFilM National Film Museum located in the very centre of Prague was opened for the public on 15 January 2019.

The White World According to Daliborek by Vít Klusák

FNE IDF DocBloc: White World, Amour and War at BIDF 2019

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-01-18

The Budapest International Documentary Festival will show East Silver Caravan titles and Silver Eye nominees in its competition from 28 January to 3 February 2019. The theme of its 5th…

FNE IDF DocBloc: Projects Selected for East Doc Platform 2019

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-01-11

Here are the projects selected for the 8th edition of East Doc Platform, the largest coproduction, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and East European documentaries, which will take…

Jan Palach Tops Czech Critics‘ Awards Nods

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2019-01-07

PRAGUE: The Czech/Slovak drama Jan Palach directed by Robert Sedláček got six nominations for the Czech Film Critics‘Awards. The awards will be announced on 2 February 2019.

The Last Ice Hunters by Jure Breceljnik and Rožle Bregar

FNE IDF DocBloc: Another Success for Slovenian Doc The Last Ice Hunters

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-12-14

Slovenian documentary The Last Ice Hunters, which captures the vanishing world of the Inuit communities of Eastern Greenland, got two awards at the Autrans International Mountain Film Festival.

GRANTS: Czech Film Fund Gives Highest Funding to Havel Biopic

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2018-12-11

PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund will support the production of eight feature films with a total sum of 2,474,386 EUR / 64 m CZK. The highest support of 560,603 EUR…